Posts by new boy

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Dating another Woke exJW or no?

by caves in

i find that the people here speak in a way i can understand because we have one thing in common if nothing else.

so my question is , would it be easier to date someone that has been a jw and woke up or not?.

i would love for someone to 'get it' without having to explain much.

new boy

It's nice but not essential I have dated quit a bit since leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses over the 17 years, I had two long term relationships in that time period (one was 3 and one 4 years long) neither women knew anything about the Jehovah Witnesses. One of them was raised as a Mormon but not practicing. That was interesting.

I'm currently "dating" a born in ex-JW woman I knew forty years ago. She left way back in the nineteen eighties. We get a long very well.

I guess love is were you find it. So finding an Ex-JW could be nice it's not imperative.

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Keeping Track Of The Brothers During The Great Tribulation

by new boy in

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i couldn’t help but watch the “bunker video “again.

i learned that once they are in the bunkers they will need to get the attendance numbers from the different groups that are in hiding during the “great tribulation.” chris and wife risked their lives going to the different groups and getting the numbers and putting them on slip of paper which he then handed to brother brown.

of course these numbers would have to be kept track of so they could make a full report back to the headquarters.

new boy

In the video brother Brown says. "How is everyone doing out there?" Chris (the pioneer) says. Everyone is fine, people are learning to do without..." Then Chris has a slight smile on his face as he says. "For many this is the first time they have had to do that."

Yes the pioneers know about sacrifice and now are quit happy to see those rich fat publishers suffering a little bit too.

Then the video shows Chris and his pioneer wife seating in their nice big house. At this point in time they realize that they haven't given up enough to serve Jehovah so they sell their home and move into a small apartment so they wouldn't feel so guilty. They should have mentioned that they did this because they followed their parents example who sold their nice big house right before 1975 to serve where the "need is greater" also.

However I'm surprised the brothers missed an opportunity showing how the couple took the proceeds from their home and donated them to the Watchtower Bible and Truck Society. So they could now have a clean conscious, knowing they have given their all to their god.

Remember the Hitler bunker Jehovah's Witness video? It would be nice if someone did a voice over on this video too.

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Keeping Track Of The Brothers During The Great Tribulation

by new boy in

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friends

i couldn’t help but watch the “bunker video “again.

i learned that once they are in the bunkers they will need to get the attendance numbers from the different groups that are in hiding during the “great tribulation.” chris and wife risked their lives going to the different groups and getting the numbers and putting them on slip of paper which he then handed to brother brown.

of course these numbers would have to be kept track of so they could make a full report back to the headquarters.

new boy

Wouldn't be funny if at the end of the video Brother Brown has a letter to be read from the governing body.

The letter would say something like this.

"The faithful and discreet slave has determined that since everyone who has been faithful has a resurrection hope the best way to get through the great tribulation is to drink this cool-aid....cheers"

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Keeping Track Of The Brothers During The Great Tribulation

by new boy in

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friends

i couldn’t help but watch the “bunker video “again.

i learned that once they are in the bunkers they will need to get the attendance numbers from the different groups that are in hiding during the “great tribulation.” chris and wife risked their lives going to the different groups and getting the numbers and putting them on slip of paper which he then handed to brother brown.

of course these numbers would have to be kept track of so they could make a full report back to the headquarters.

new boy

I couldn’t help but watch the “bunker video “again.

I learned that once they are in the bunkers they will need to get the attendance numbers from the different groups that are in hiding during the “great tribulation.” Chris and wife risked their lives going to the different groups and getting the numbers and putting them on slip of paper which he then handed to Brother Brown. Of course these numbers would have to be kept track of so they could make a full report back to the headquarters.

What only 14 in group three? What happen to the Jones? Well Brother Brown it seems that Kevin got hungry and went out for some pizza.” Remember Kevin he was the guy at the KH in the video they said "He already has his paradise and actually took a weekend shift at his job.” So because of that they didn’t tell Kevin about the secret door knock. I sure they were shunning poor Kevin long before they were hiding in their bunkers.

Yes they really do care about people.

I talked to a friend of mine who told me about her stanch Jehovah Witness mother who had been in the organization for over fifty years.

She spent the last eight years of her life in a nursing home. Guess how times the Witnesses came by to see her before she died?

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Why can JW's attend funerals or weddings in a church?

by QuestioningEverything in

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what is the reasoning/policy behind the practice that a jw can't attend an event such as funeral or wedding in another church?

i know of someone that didn't attend her older sisters funeral because it was held in a baptist church.

she waited outside until the service was over and then went to the family dinner afterwards.

new boy

My Nazis Jehovah's Witness mother prevented my father from going to his own father's funeral, a man he loved more then anything. The reason was the funeral was in a Catholic church.

I couldn't go to my own non-Jehovah Witness father's funeral (Which was not in any church) because my Nazis Jehovah Witness Sister didn't bother to inform me of his death. She didn't want to see (me) her Dis-associated brother there so I never got the phone call.

So I guess my father and me got the same punishment because of our association with the loving organization know as the Jehovah's Witnesses.

"By their love you will recognize them".......isn't that the truth!

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I am an idiot..

by zeb in

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going past a 'new-age' shop today i stupidly said to my most 'uber' wife, do you want a reading?

" ..not a good idea.. oh dear.. she opened up correcting my every other word and brought in a stream of jw speak and now many hours later is still steaming under an acute cloud of sol.. oh god keep me from being so stupid; cut out my tongue, glue my teeth together.

aaarrgh!

new boy

Sadly this is a place many here have been before you. I wish I could tell you things get easier as time goes by but unless a miracle happens this gap will only grow with time. Than a day may come when you look at each other and you both realize you have no idea who this person is that you been married too for many years.

Or maybe she will like yourself will wake up and there will be a happy ending.

Good luck either way.

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How Long for The Light to Come On?

by new boy in

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how long does it take for the light to come on?

how long to realize the great deception you were a part of.. of course everyone is different.

it took over 50 years for me.

new boy

I hope that guy whoever he is not only choose not go Bethel but left the Borg too.

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How Long for The Light to Come On?

by new boy in

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friends

how long does it take for the light to come on?

how long to realize the great deception you were a part of.. of course everyone is different.

it took over 50 years for me.

new boy

How long does it take for the light to come on? How long to realize the great deception you were a part of.

Of course everyone is different. It took over 50 years for me. This is a fact I'm not proud of.

I know one person at Bethel who figured it out in less than a minute.

He drove up to Bethel on a motorcycle. Bob Lang was walking across the street to the 107 building when the new boy on on his motorcycle ask him how to report in to Bethel.

Bob Lang told him. "This is Bethel."

"Great!" said the new boy.

Bob looked him over. "Is this your motorcycle?"

"Yes why?"

"Well, they are not allowed here!"

"No?"

"No!"

"Bye!"

The shortest stay in Bethel history. Of course one must wonder did he spot the bull shit in that one minute of Bethel, or the whole organization?

Myself I see my children and the generations that are much younger than me better at recognizing the discrepancies, lies, double standards and just plain nonsense the witnesses have perpetuate through the decades.

Yes everyone is different and everyone moves at their own place.

Bless all of us and bless all of them.

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February 2018 Watchtower - Addressing abuse Victims

by Listener in

there's a preview note on one of the articles in this newly released watchtower.

the note can be found on an article titled "part 1 of 4 love and justice in ancient israel".the note states -.

this article is the first in a series of four that will discuss why we can be sure that jehovah cares about us.

new boy

"Although he may not intervene immediately, in due time he will hold unrepentant wrongdoers to account for the way they have treated others."

I guess that means the governing body because of their failure to turn in known pedophiles.

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A Cult Tactic: Removing Guilt By Dehumanising Others

by pale.emperor in

in the real world, very few parents would disown their own children simply because they read a magazine that told them to do it.

very few people would forever completely ignore their own parents because an elder got up on a platform one day and announced that they no longer follow the same religion as you.. in the real world it just doesn't happen.

and yet, for 8 million jehovah's witnesses it's very a normal part of their world to treat "other people" differently than they'd treat each other.

new boy

Are the JWs like the Nazis? Good question.

I would say yes.... and no... but yet they are.

Yes, in the fact their contaminated thought system has alienated and killed people with their shunning policy. Just like the Nazis shunning of the Jews.

However being pacifists they actually will not kill you, no they hope their god will do that dirty work for them.

Yet isn't this what happened in Nazis Germany. The general population of families of men women and children never really killed the Jews that were around them. No the let their god/soldiers do that dirty work for them.

So are are we talking about the difference of thoughts of hatred or the actual acts of violence?

Are they really not the same thing?

Maybe you can't kill someone but wish them dead.

Just like 8 million JWs are looking forward to the day their god will kill 8 billion people on this planet.

Even though they can't do the dirty work they will let their loving god Jehovah put these billions of people in the gas chambers known as Armageddon.

So yes just as the general German population stood by as their government destroyed millions of "worldly" people (people different than them) the JWs like the Germans are able to the same thing.

Sieg Hiel!